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Sentence Examples Reacting, the Viking threw up his shield, disappearing into an umbra of flame. The area boasts the site of the 11 th-century Battle of Cruden, which saw King Malcolm defend Scotland from Viking invaders. Many archaeologists believe that the Skraelings mentioned in Viking sagas were actually a group referred to as the Recent Indians. In 875, Alfred went to sea with a small naval force and on the south coast of Wessex met 7 Viking longships and defeated them. The Orkney Museum's latest items include models of a Viking longship and a sailing ship as well as children's toys and domestic artefacts. Nordic fighters armed with swords and battleaxes took to the streets, while Viking longships cruised on the River Ouse. In Iceland the impact of Viking farmsteads on the land can be dated by analyzing layers of volcanic ash in soils, sediments, and ice caps. They also plan to erect a standing stone in New York City's Central Park, carved with Viking runes in honour of Eriksson's 1000th anniversary. It was part of an epic holiday that took us thousands of miles along the Atlantic seaboard of Canada and the Viking Trail. There is lushness and grandeur to the Moorish castles, a true handcrafted fishing village look to the Viking enclave. A Viking ship typically drew only about three feet of water and they were experts at sailing on rivers. Maybe that rumour could be added to the list of Viking myths and sagas that will feature next Friday in Bardic Adventurers! The word lug is Scandinavian in origin so perhaps there is a bit of Viking left in all of us. But no one would claim that a whale's bones need the same care and attention as a collection of Viking silver or a set of ivory chess pieces. Of greater use to the Welsh kings of the tenth and eleventh centuries was the supply of Viking and Saxon mercenaries. The Scandinavian languages of the Viking settlers penetrated much more deeply into English vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and phonology. Most evidence for slavery in the Viking Age refers to Scandinavians as slave traders but not as slaveholders in their own society. Hymer is a young Swedish Viking in his early manhood and the heir to a village chief. At the tented encampment, visitors were able to chat to Viking families as they cooked using authentic tenth century ingredients. There will be themed events each weekend and in the final week our Viking heritage will be celebrated with saga, dance and song. Show More Sentences The rampant crowds were like ancient Viking barbarians, smoking heavily and taking down alcohol in large gulps. The fun starts in a Viking the instant you push the throttle full forward for takeoff. The Viking victory marked the start of a series of events that would change English history. It is full of fells and pikes, dales and thwaites, all old Viking words which are preserved here but not used widely elsewhere. Orkney's largest fishing vessel and one of the biggest in the UK fleet, Orcades Viking III, has been sold to an Icelandic company. John, who is a registered mountain guide by profession, runs his own very successful company, Viking Trekking. There is also fairly strong evidence that the first Viking landers of the 1970's did find some firm evidence of microbic life on the Red Planet. The Viking berserker was thought not only to have assumed the ferocity of an animal, but also to have acquired the strength of a grizzly. Grappling hooks fly up from the ground and grab the edge of the awning, and the Viking berserkers start climbing onto the platform. Fordham earned the Viking tag largely thanks to his large frame, fuzzy beard and a remarkably coiffured lengthy brown mullet hairstyle. Indeed, one of the main reasons for its construction was to prevent Viking ships from sailing unchecked upriver. The Slavic tradition of Viking ship building such as from Northern Poland owes a lot to the trenail, and less to the use of iron. Australia asked the master of the Norwegian ship Tampa to assist, and in true Viking tradition, he did. You know that some group of people will arrive bleeding and broken wearing Viking helmets or the togas of a gospel choir. Beads have been excavated in large numbers from early period female Viking graves. In Viking days, there were probably mutterings about how mean and amoral life had become, what with all that raping, pillaging and so forth. Their entire surfaces were carved with mythical beasts and classic Viking patterns. The unladen Viking can be underslung and airlifted by an RAF Chinook helicopter. His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready. Europe is famous for having so many miles of navigable waterways, so the Viking ships could and did travel far inland. Show More Sentences It was believed that when a Viking died in battle, a warrior maiden called a Valkyrie escorted him to Valhalla. It lost most of its monasteries and was not much of a prize when a Viking came to the King of the West Franks in 911 with a proposal. Despite this, I can often be found salivating over a Viking catalogue or fondling the gorgeous specimens on sale in Paperchase. As if to remind us that Vikings were warriors as well as traders, a shining Viking helmet stands next to him. But the Danish Viking relinquished his hold upon Bernicia and, moving south in the following year, possessed himself of the kingdom of York. Pagan burial mounds on the Isle of Man have revealed the grave of a Viking warrior. By the time the Normans conquered in 1066, York was bigger in terms of size, status and population thanks to the Viking flair for commerce. Yesterday, children from several York schools took part in a Viking procession before they broke up for the half-term holiday. The medieval hall, in Coffee Yard, off Stonegate, in York, is also putting on special Viking activities for children. Svensholm is a small Viking homestead, comprising a large hall and a few outbuildings. Much of my Yorkshire stock descended from the Viking Raids of the 9th century. The museum itself is built right on the site of a Viking settlement, discovered only a few years ago. The Viking Sport Cruiser is a 1997 model with an enclosed flybridge, large swim platform and two Volvo diesel engines. Well preserved remains of Viking ships show they were clinker-built of overlapping planks and measured between about 17.5m and 36m in length. Over the last year he has been studiously researching the Viking saga upon which his character is based. The Technicolor images of the Norwegian fiords with the Viking boats are stunningly beautiful. The Viking soldiers tried to attack but most had fled and the others were weak and puny. The Viking colonists had allowed cattle to overgraze their pastures, and their arable land was badly affected by soil erosion. In addition glow discharges might account for some reactions noted in the Viking biological experiments. But which North Yorkshire clash between the English army and the Viking hordes took place the same year? Show More Sentences The Viking hordes returned to York this weekend as fierce armoured warriors mingled with the city centre crowds. Raw materials were brought to the city from across the huge swathe of Northern England under Viking control in the 10th century. At this drab time of year, the annual Jorvik Viking Festival bursts in with a blast on a horn and a colourful clash of swords. The bottom of the Viking 40 has an 18-degree deadrise at the transom which is fairly steep for this class boat. Treasures dating from Anglo Saxon, Viking and Iron Age times are on show at the Yorkshire Museum in York. The Danegeld was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders. The time honoured methods of ransom, Danegeld and baptism of Viking leaders continued to be more successful. The earliest item is a Viking bronze sword pommel from the late tenth century incised with diamond shapes and simplified animal forms. The Danegeld was a tax created by English rulers to pay for the defense of their country from Viking raiders. He defended the Kingdom of Wessex from Viking raids and in 878 he defeated the Danes in the Battle of Ethandune near Westbury. The Viking crew verified the trailing-wire antenna was in and the drogue seated. Yet maybe that eccentric, rootless Viking intrepidity would suit her hero more. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that the Viking armies were led by jarls as often as kings. They were looking at the first complete cemetery of individual Viking inhumation graves ever excavated in England. What happened when Viking raiders turned into Viking settlers and took land to farm? In 867 York was seized by Danish raiders from the Viking kingdom of Dublin, led by Ivarr and his brother Halfdan. I break into a vague hummed rendition of a Viking drinking song and kinda rock back and forth holding up the glass. Nothing actually stopped this Viking invasion until 892, when pestilence so ravaged the army that they finally dispersed. At Jorvik, spooky characters from the Viking past will greet children aged between five and 11 during a special Hallowe'en tour. The man who helped create York's world-famous Jorvik Viking Centre has offered to help save the Mystery Plays. Show More Sentences The route that Columbus took is a route, which was feasible for a sailing craft, such as of the Viking type, much earlier. The Auk Formation is widespread in the UK Central North Sea and extends northwards into the southern Viking Graben. The Viking army, led by Harald Hardrada of Norway, charged into battle and trapped the English in a pincer movement. Visitors can follow clues around the exhibition to discover what life on board a Viking ship would have been like. But suddenly the scenes of domesticity were interrupted by sound of a war horn as the Viking warriors re-enacted a battle. The resurgence of the Anglo-Saxons under Harold at Hastings hides from view an earlier period of Viking domination of England. The Viking Age ended when many states in Europe developed the feudal system. Hence, Viking graves often contain Arab silver, Byzantine silks, Frankish weapons, Rhenish glass, and other products of an extensive trade. Tall ships, small ships, pirate ships, submarines, rafts, and Viking longboats might all put in an appearance. There was very little formal structure by way of military rank in Viking armies. Perhaps their most glorious hour was when they discovered the hulk of a Viking longboat, perfectly preserved in mud off Anglesey. Tourists could then be brought to see the original site by boat along the river, even perhaps on replicas of Viking longboats. A long sea voyage aboard a Viking longboat would be difficult for you, but you might be able to manage it. For example, during the park tour, the warden stresses that they did not come on Viking longboats. The ships used to transport wine before the 12th century were longboats like the Viking ships. In these, information about the history of the regions and archaeological discoveries bring the Viking and early medieval periods to life. Below the empty windows, waves crash against rocks that bear the keel marks of Viking longships. Wherries evolved from the original Viking longships of 800 years ago, and when you see them compared it's clear they haven't changed much. The terrors of the early 21st century will be as remote to their lives as Viking longships are to ours. While things had picked up by the height of the Viking era in the 9th and 10th centuries, two things were holding the region back. Show More Sentences This excerpt is published with the permission of the author and the publisher, Viking Press. The earliest known Irish coins were minted by Sihtric Olafsson in the Viking kingdom of Dublin after 990 and were copies of English silver pennies. The Minster was packed with 800 spectators, who watched a candlelit procession of more than 100 Viking guards, Bloodaxe's Viking Queen, and her ladies-in-waiting. Uhtred is the heir to the earldom of Bebbanburgh, now known as Bamburgh, in northern England, after his older brother and his father are killed by Viking raiders. What have the Danes ever done for me, I pondered on the way to the pub, apart from lend me a Scandic name and an unmeasurable quantity of Viking blood? Today's scholars need not be embarrassed that earlier scholars doubted the notion of pre-Columbian Viking journeys to America many years after many nonexperts accepted it. A Viking procession, a regatta with replica Norwegian longboats, and a spectacular floodlit battle re-enactment called The Challenge To Power will also feature. The pool hall in Viking Way has proven a hit with teenagers who are too young to be in pubs or clubs, or feel too old to be at an organised youth group. The Viking museum in Roskilde has recently completed an exact replica of an 11 th century Irish built longship which will soon set sail to Ireland. The work also established the location of a medieval church called St John in the Marsh, as well as uncovering remains from the Viking and Anglian periods. He also demonstrated how the Vikings lit fires using flints, how they cooked, what they wore, and showed them how to play the tactical Viking game Hassle Taffle. According to an account in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, written in the 9th century, that failed Viking raid was hardly a one-off. When Viking invaders tore through 9th-century Europe, only one Anglo-Saxon leader was able to withstand their ferocious onslaught. The Normans were descended from 10th century Viking settlers in Normandy. Given the survival of the church, there is the possibility of continuity in Conisbrough from the Anglian period, through the Viking Age, to the Norman conquest and beyond. Dr Addyman said York had been the centre of a vast Viking empire in the west, and was still considered by hordes of Norwegian visitors as a little outpost of Norway. The Viking city in 975 AD is a fairly peaceable sort of place. The belief, prevalent among nautical archaeologists, that seafarers did not use sailing ships much before the Viking age is surprising given the reliable literary evidence. When the men with ripping muscles and lean frames slapped their arms and thighs in gusto and let out a Viking war cry, the entire place reverberated with the loud sharp blows. The Viking mercenaries were probably drawn from Dublin and paid in silver in the form of coin or hack-silver, for there were no major Scandinavian settlements in Wales. Show More Sentences A small, dark, contentious people known as the Picts held sway over the islands until the eighth and ninth centuries, when Viking invaders arrived. Viking forces marched through the city on Saturday before coming to blows in the Eye of York in the re-enactment of a 10th century clash between Viking and Anglo Saxon armies. Marauding warriors with horned helmets who slaughtered monks and carried off treasures are at the heart of the popular image of the Viking invasions of the British Isles. It appears that, in a time of constant conflict between Saxons and Danes, some Viking landowners chose to celebrate their military status and Scandinavian heritage. Now, unlike the master shipbuilders of the Mediterranean civilizations, the Viking shipwrights didn't think in terms of cargo tonnage, military logistics, or naval tactics. Still, by the time Wonka and his guests set sail, the fact that their ship is a Viking longboat carved from a big boiled sweet seems almost mundane. Bluetooth takes its name from Harald Blatand, the 10th-century Danish king who cudgeled neighboring Viking chieftains into unifying Denmark and Norway. The Kingdom of England was forged in the furnace of Viking invasions. The origins of the duchy of Normandy lie in a grant of territory around Rouen made early in the 10th cent. by the king of the west Franks to a Viking chieftain named Rollo. Does Viking on the balance of probabilities intend to reflag the Rosella? After their stay the couple kept a pile of mementoes of their visit to York, including 1970s Viking Hotel leaflets and even sugar packets, along with their wedding photos. In 896, he ordered the construction of a small fleet, perhaps a dozen or so longships that, at 60 oars, were twice the size of Viking warships. The three Viking ships afloat attempted to break through the English lines. In 832, a Viking fleet of about 120 invaded kingdoms on Ireland's northern and eastern coasts. Mount Cross, above the hamlet of Shore in the Cliviger Gorge, shows signs of Viking influence. This includes the Gosforth cross, which is the tallest and oldest Viking cross in England. A Viking sword was discovered at Northside, which is believed to indicate that there was a settlement at the river's mouth. Hodgson Hill, an earthwork on the northeast shoreline of Ullswater may be the remains of a Viking fortified settlement. It is believed to have established by Viking settlers, possibly from the 10th century onward, although it has not been dated archaeologically. According to this, it was brought to the region somewhere between the 10th and 11th centuries during the Viking invasions of western England. Show More Sentences The primary Viking legacy is an abundance of placenames of Old Norse origin. With the beginning of the Viking Age in the 9th century, the prehistoric period in Denmark ends. Brief Viking expeditions to North America around 1000 did not result in any settlements, and they were soon driven off by natives. Free peasants lost the traditional rights and privileges they had enjoyed since Viking times. The Viking Age was a period of Scandinavian expansion through trade, colonization and raids. The first raid was against Lindisfarne in 793 and is considered the beginning of the Viking Age. There have been settlements in the area now comprising Southport since the Domesday Book, and some parts of the town have names of Viking origin. The two newest ships, Viking Baldur and Viking Magni, will join the fleet in late August and September, respectively. In Shetland, he says, a handful of people still pay the Viking wadmal tax, which was originally handed over in wool and was later levied in cash. Work is expected to start on site at the beginning of November on Lukes Lane, Viking and in the Brockley Whins estates. This looks at the place's real stars, the Arctic fox, the Eider duck and Viking horses. In 1973, VS-29 retired its S-2Es as the CVS era ended and began transition to the new jet-powered S-3A Viking ASW aireraft. A special agent should stay in special accommodation and Hotel Barken Viking provides just that. The Viking Bits family of drill bits is designed based on knowledge of lithology and drilling experience in Russia. The majority of excavated Viking Age longhouses in Iceland are 12-16m in length, but a few longhouses are significantly larger. So it's no wonder that even a Viking has to take a pit stop for a cup of tea and a bacon buttie, as our pictures from yesterday show. Then there are the medieval stave churches of Norway, so called from the Viking name for a timber post. The DHC-6 Twin Otter is a Canadian 20-passenger STOL utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada and currently produced by Viking Air. The parliament Tynwald is the oldest in the world and can trace its history back to Viking times. The recreation of the Viking period is very much a game of pageantry and costumery, all of it delivered in a stilted and laboured prose. Show More Sentences And the request for cash from a Danish king brought back all those bad memories of Danegeld, or, as we might call it, Viking protection money. Epsom provides punters with good twilight action and their feature race the Viking Direct Conditions Stakes can go to Heliodor. Led by their ealdorman, Byrhtnoth, they faced up to a larger Viking force at the River Blackwater. Moments later I nearly have my head sliced off by a foam Viking axe thoughtfully presented as a useful historic present by a well-meaning aunt. The replica Viking ship Skibladner can currently be seen ashore at Haroldswick. As we boarded the Viking Forseti longship the crew greeted us with handshakes and smiles, then we were escorted to our room. Futhark, the Viking alphabet, comprises letters called runes made from straight lines so that they are easier to carve on stone or wood. Sails for Viking ships required large amounts of wool, as evidenced by experimental archaeology. In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne. The devastation of Northumbria's Holy Island shocked and alerted the royal courts of Europe to the Viking presence. Geijer's poem did much to propagate the new romanticised ideal of the Viking, which had little basis in historical fact. In Normandy, which had been settled by Vikings, the Viking ship became an uncontroversial regional symbol. Novgorod now enthusiastically acknowledges its Viking history and has included a Viking ship in its logo. The vampire Eric Northman, in the HBO TV series True Blood, was a Viking prince before being turned into a vampire. Studies of genetic diversity provide some indication of the origin and expansion of the Viking population. However, throughout the Viking Age, runic alphabets remained in common use in Scandinavia. And, of course, many a Viking child would be conceived in the bed furs by Viking men and women who were bored and lustsome. After repeated Viking raids, the monks fled Lindisfarne in AD 875, carrying St Cuthbert's relics with them. In Norway, standing stones usually dated to the Migration Period, the Viking Age or early Middle Ages. Little is attributable to the 8th and 9th centuries, due to the regular Viking raids. Show More Sentences The incised strip appears to be the stem of a cross and this indicates a Viking threat to a church. His best known work is Sermo Lupi ad Anglos in which he blames the sins of the English for the Viking invasions. Bathory inspired the Viking metal and folk metal movements and Immortal brought blast beats to the fore. Cressida Cowell wrote How to Train Your Dragon, a series of twelve books set in a fictional Viking world. Oak planking was common on high status Viking longships in the 9th and 10th centuries. As early as 841, a Viking fleet appeared at the mouth of the Seine, the principal route by which they entered the kingdom. In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered. Significant urban settlements only developed following the period of Viking invasions. Though these names were of Viking derivation some of the families who bear them appear to have had Gaelic origins. It was at this time, perhaps as a response to Viking raids, that many of the Irish round towers were built. The Viking Age brought great changes in Britain and Ireland, no less in Scotland than elsewhere. Most of the Hebrides have names with Scots Gaelic derivations, whilst those of the Northern Isles tend to be derived from the Viking names. The Mainland contains the remnants of numerous Neolithic, Pictish and Viking constructions. The site has provided evidence of habitation during various phases right up until Viking times. As a result of this Norse influence, many current place names on Arran are of Viking origin. The primary armoured fighting vehicle operated by the Armoured Support Group is the BvS 10 Viking All Terrain Armoured Vehicle. In Britain it is associated with Scandinavian immigration during periods of Viking settlement. Around 850, Lothair I of Middle Francia acknowledged the Viking Rorik of Dorestad as ruler of most of Frisia. Around 879, another Viking raided the Frisian lands, Godfrid, Duke of Frisia. The Viking raids made the sway of French and German lords in the area weak. Show More Sentences Prior to the Viking Age, the main power in Pictland appears to have been the kingdom of Fortriu. In addition, numerous common, everyday Old Norse words were adopted into the Old English language during the Viking age. In Norway the Art Nouveau was connected with a revival inspired by Viking folk art and crafts. The kingdom's independent existence ended in the Viking Age, and it eventually merged with the lands of the Picts to form the Kingdom of Alba. The sound of a wolf roused a sentry, however, who alerted his garrison, which forced a Viking retreat. Maredudd fought off English encroachment in Powys and increasing Viking raids in Gwynedd. The late Insular Ricemarch Psalter from the 11th century was certainly written in Wales, and also shows strong Viking influence. Founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Ireland's principal city following the Norman invasion. Dublinia is a living history attraction showcasing the Viking and Medieval history of the city. The Swedish Viking Age lasted roughly from the 8th century to the 11th century. Pioneering scholarly works on the Viking Age reached a small readership in Britain. It was in the 8th century that Scandinavians began to build ships of war and send them on raiding expeditions which started the Viking Age. Tension caused by Frankish expansion to the south of Scandinavia and their subsequent attacks upon the Viking peoples. In England hoards of Viking silver such as the Cuerdale Hoard and the Vale of York Hoard, offer good insight to this phenomenon. The Pull factor suggests that the weak political bodies of Britain and Western Europe made for an attractive target for Viking raiders. As a result, Viking raiders found it easy to sack and then retreat from these areas which were thus frequently raided. These models constitute much of what we know about the motivations for and the causes of the Viking Age. Alfred and his successors continued to drive back the Viking frontier and take York. Harold Harefoot became king of England after Cnut's death and Viking rule of England ceased. The Viking presence dwindled until 1066, when the invading Norsemen lost their final battle with the English at Stamford Bridge. Show More Sentences During the first 40 years, the raids were conducted by small, mobile Viking groups. After this interaction, the Irish experienced Viking forces for about 40 years. A Viking poem portrays the environment as strongly pagan, with chanting Valkyries deciding who would live and who would die. The Viking Age settlements in Greenland were established in the sheltered fjords of the southern and western coast. The first Viking raids began between 790 and 800 along the coasts of western France. The Viking attackers sought to capture the treasures stored at monasteries, easy prey given the monks' lack of defensive capacity. This slant was accentuated by the absence of contemporary primary source documentation from within the Viking Age communities themselves. When larger scale battles ensued, Viking crews would rope together all nearby ships and slowly proceed towards the enemy targets. The roping technique allowed Viking crews to remain strong in numbers and act as a unit, but this uniformity also created problems. The Viking Ship Museum features three Viking ships found at Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune and several other unique items from the Viking age. Continental rifts are the sites of significant oil and gas accumulations, such as the Viking Graben and the Gulf of Suez Rift. Harthacanute of Denmark and England was the last Viking king to rule over a territory spanning the North Sea. At the same time, the beginning of the Viking Age led to the spread of Old Norse to Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished. The Viking longships were the epitome of naval power in their time and were highly valued possessions. It was built from scratch by experts, using original Viking and experimental archaeological methods. The Viking shipbuilders had no written diagrams or standard written design plan. Since the discovery of the original longships in the 1800s, many boat builders have built Viking ship replicas. A Viking legend states that Vikings used to take caged crows aboard ships and let them loose if they got lost. Show More Sentences The chests were made the same size and were the perfect height for a Viking to sit on and row. Several of the original longships built in the Viking Age have been excavated by archaeologists. Several of the Viking cruise ships are made specifically with Kiel Canal passage in mind, namely the Sea and Sky models. By 911, the area had been raided many times and there were even small Viking settlements on the lower Seine. Since the beginning, the new monarch was forced to deal with constant Viking raids, with little success. They emerged in the Viking Age, when Vikings who settled in Ireland and in Scotland adopted Gaelic culture and intermarried with Gaels. The Viking longship also influenced the Gaelic birlinn or longa fada, which were used extensively until the 17th century. King Alfred the Great of England was able to stay the Viking invasions with a pivotal victory at the Battle of Edington. About 960AD, Count Baldwin III had a town wall erected in order to protect the settlement against Viking raids. The Hugin is a reconstructed Viking longship located at Pegwell Bay in Ramsgate. Part of Regional Cycle Route 15 or Viking Coastal Trail, about halfway between Sandwich and Ramsgate. The island is a likely location of Vinland, mentioned in the Viking Chronicles, although this has been disputed. In the early 11th century a Viking chieftain named Tryggvi invaded Norway, claiming to be the son of Olaf and Gyda. Around 1000, a wall was built around the hill as a defence against Viking raids. In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hardanger was a petty kingdom with its capital at Kinsarvik. The placename may reflect worship of Thor there by Danes during the Viking Age rather than by Angles during the Roman Iron Age. The Viking Age, a period of migrations of Scandinavian peoples, occurred from the late 8th century to the middle 11th century. They are found in Scandinavia and Viking Age settlements abroad, probably in use from the 9th century onward. The largest group of surviving Runic inscription are Viking Age Younger Futhark runestones, most commonly found in Sweden. In 845, 600 Viking ships sailed up the River Elbe and destroyed Hamburg, at that time a town of around 500 inhabitants. Show More Sentences There is much debate among historians about what drove the Viking expansion. Another idea is that the Viking population had exceeded the agricultural potential of their homeland. In 875, after enduring eight decades of repeated Viking raids, the monks fled Lindisfarne, carrying the relics of Saint Cuthbert with them. However, Alfred and his successors eventually drove back the Viking frontier and retook York. In 832, a Viking fleet of about 120 ships under Turgesius invaded kingdoms on Ireland's northern and eastern coasts. Silkbeard responded by offering the bed of his mother to several Viking lords from Scandinavia, Ireland and Britain. With Brian dead, Ireland returned to the fractured kingdom it had once been, but was now cleared of further Viking predation. The Viking presence in Normandy began with raids into the territory of the Frankish Empire, from the middle of 9th century. The Duchy of Normandy was created for the Viking leader Rollo after he had besieged Paris. West Francia and Middle Francia suffered more severely than East Francia during the Viking raids of the 9th century. Two dukes of Gascony, Seguin II and William I, died defending Bordeaux from Viking assaults. Buried Viking treasures consisting mainly of silver have been found in the Low Countries. In the siege of Asselt in 882, the Franks sieged a Viking camp at Asselt in Frisia. Godfrid was assassinated in 885, after which Gerolf of Holland assumed lordship and Viking rule of Frisia came to an end. Remains of Viking attacks dating from 880 to 890 have been found in Zutphen and Deventer. Studies of genetic diversity have provided scientific confirmation to accompany archaeological evidence of Viking expansion. The Nordic countries first came into more permanent contact with the rest of Europe during the Viking age. In medieval Scandinavia, the practice survived throughout the Viking Age in the form of the Holmgang. During the Viking Age, the Norse likely regarded themselves as a more or less unified entity through their shared Germanic language, Old Norse. Enslaved individuals from the British Isles were common throughout the Nordic world during the Viking Age. Show More Sentences During the Viking Age, Norse people left Scandinavia and settled elsewhere throughout Northwestern Europe. The following years saw the Danish Viking expansion, which incorporated Norway and Northern England into the Danish kingdom. The word Viking was introduced into Modern English during the 18th century, at which point it frequently acquired romanticized heroic overtones. The rediscovery of the Viking past began in Norway during the 19th century when Norway saw a rise in nationalism. The excavation of other ships and artifacts led to a higher consciousness about the Viking past in Norway. For example, the only complete Viking helmet ever to be found was also excavated in Norway. The term Viking was popularized with positive connotations, by Erik Gustaf Geijer at the beginning of the 19th century. The word Viking was taken to refer to romanticized, heroic, idealized Norse seafarers and warriors. His Nordic influences further enhanced the Romanticism of the Viking era during that time. He brought to the American popular attention the idea that Viking explorers discovered the New World and was the originator of Leif Erikson Day. The Vikings were the best naval architects of their day, and the Viking longship was both large and versatile. In the Viking era beginning circa 793, the Norse raiders often captured and enslaved militarily weaker peoples they encountered. During the Viking invasions of the 9th century, Northumbrian came under the influence of the languages of the Viking invaders. The Viking invasion forced a division of the dialect into two distinct subdialects. All trace of Lindsey's separate status had vanished before the Viking assault in the late ninth century. Mug had been introduced into northern English dialects by Viking settlement. The Danelaw split the present county into a Viking north and a Saxon south. In the far north, Viking incursions brought Old Norse speakers into Caithness, Orkney and Shetland. The attack on Lindisfarne in 793 is generally considered the beginning of the Viking Age. In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory he and his Viking allies had previously conquered. Find more words! 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